Contents
PART 1 A STARTING PLACE: A JULY AFTERNOON
Elvis Presley’s Leap for Freedom
PART 2 SETTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORIES
Subterranean: Bob Dylan’s Passages
The Rolling Stones’ Journey into Fear
The Legacy of Jim Morrison and the Doors
PART 3 REMAKING THE TERRITORIES
Brothers: The Allman Brothers Band
Keith Jarrett’s Keys to the Cosmos
The Clash: Punk Beginnings, Punk Endings
The Problem of Michael Jackson
Upstarts: Over & Under the Wall, & into the Territory’s Center
Clash of the Titans: Heavy Metal Enters the 1990s
Randy Newman: Songs of the Promised Land
Al Green: Sensuality in the Service of the Lord
Miles Davis: The Lion in Winter
Feargal Sharkey: Songs of Hearts and Thieves
Marianne Faithfull: Trouble in Mind
Sinéad O’Connor’s Songs of Experience
David Baerwald’s Songs of Secrets and Sins
Dark Shadows: Hank Williams, Nick Drake, Phil Ochs
Tim Hardin: Lost Along the Way
Dennis Wilson: The Lone Surfer
No Simple Highway: The Story of Jerry Garcia & the Grateful Dead
Ella Fitzgerald: Grace Over Pain
Timothy Leary: The Death of the Most Dangerous Man
Allen Ginsberg: For the Fucking and the Dying
Kurt Cobain’s Road from Nowhere: Walking the Streets of Aberdeen